vRealize Operations (Formerly vRealize Operations)

VMware makes it easier for you to gain comprehensive visibility into the performance and health of your infrastructure and applications, reclaim over-provisioned capacity and ensure compliance with IT policies and regulatory requirements.

You can deploy the vRealize Operations Manager virtual appliance in about 15 minutes, so it’s fast and easy to get started. Deploy more components of vRealize Operations to take full advantage of the operations dashboards, predictive performance analytics, capacity optimization, change and configuration management, and application discovery capabilities.

VMware vRealize Operations is built on an open and extensible platform so you can manage virtual and physical environments and even virtual machines running on other hypervisors and public clouds, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a single solution.

With vRealize Operations you can:

Gain Comprehensive Visibility into Operations

Enable Quality of Service for Infrastructure and Applications

Optimize for Efficiency and Compliance

Gain Comprehensive Visibility into Operations

Operations Dashboards

An operations dashboard is supposed to tell you what is really happening in your environment, not overwhelm you with low-level metrics. This is why vRealize Operations dashboards show new kind of super metrics for Health, Risk and Efficiency so you can focus on problem areas that require your immediate attention. Click to drill deeper into applications, clusters and individual VMs and data stores. Even experienced VI admins start to "see" areas for improvement in their environment. You can also customize dashboards any way you like and provide role-based access to enable better collaboration with your peers and other teams. Spend less time monitoring and more time optimizing. This is how dashboards are supposed to work - for your datacenter, and the cloud.

Operations Dashboards

Proactive Smart Alerts

Traditional monitoring tools use static thresholds to alert you of every possible CPU or memory level being crossed. In fast changing virtual environments, these alerts could either be false positives or not trigger when they should. vRealize Operations is different because it learns the behavior of your environment and adjusts thresholds dynamically. As a result, you get about 10-times fewer alerts, yet they're more meaningful and help detect bottlenecks, capacity shortfalls or compliance risks before they lead to an incident and end users are impacted. Best of all, you also see the root cause of an issue by correlating application and infrastructure behavior. No alert storms. No fire drills. No drama.

Smart Alerts

Intelligent Groups and Policies

With intelligent groups you can structure your operations views the way you want to see them, by application, by department, by name or tag, by configuration type or any other way you like. Group membership is dynamic; meaning a new VM or object matching the group policy in the environment will be added or removed automatically. You can also define specific health, risk and capacity thresholds, alert types and notifications, business hours and many other configuration settings at a group level to prioritize operational activities for business critical applications, production workloads or business units. Being aligned with the business has never been this easy.

Intelligent Groups

Open and Extensible Platform

If you're managing your virtual infrastructure with vRealize Operations, what about remaining physical servers, or when you have virtual machines running on other hypervisors like Hyper-V, or public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS)? VMware can help. vRealize Operations can monitor physical servers, operating systems, databases and application servers from Microsoft and Oracle so you can manage all your VMs, servers and applications with a single solution, regardless of where they run. You can also check configuration status and enforce compliance rules on virtual machines running on Xen or Hyper-V. With vRealize Operations you get comprehensive operations management to help you get most out of vSphere and the hybrid cloud.

Open Extensible

Enable Quality of Service for Infrastructure and Applications

Discover and Monitor Applications

Virtual machines shouldn't be managed like black boxes. You need to know what applications, databases and web servers run on your virtual infrastructure so you can provide disaster recovery protection, backup, security and compliance for all application components, business critical or not. vRealize Operations automatically discovers, catalogs and visualizes application dependencies and monitors their performance. Monitoring of Windows OS and Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Databases and many other middleware technologies give you insights into the correlation of application and infrastructure performance. You can also "BYOMT" - Bring Your Own Monitoring Tools and integrate them with vRealize Operations.

Discover Monitor Apps

Detect When Changes Impact Performance

Virtual infrastructure enables a much higher rate of change so IT can respond more quickly to business needs. This is one of the key advantages of virtualization over physical environments, However, change must be managed carefully. vRealize Operations enables insight and visibility into configuration changes both in the vSphere infrastructure as well as the guest OS. You can check for unapproved drift, harden the infrastructure based on security guidelines and enforce configuration standards by rolling back unauthorized changes. Even better, you can see when changes start to impact performance, taking root cause analysis to the next level. By looking at application dependencies you can assess the impact of potential changes before committing to them.

Detect Change Impact Performance

Advice and Recommendations

VMware makes it easy to not only see what is happening in your infrastructure but also what you should do about it and why. Rather than trying to understand the meaning of low-level metrics, we have introduced new concepts for usage, entitlement and demand for resources that simplify vSphere management. You can also pull up recommendations based on VMware best practices on how to best deal with situations. It’s like having an expert in your back pocket.

Advice Recommendations

Automated Workflow Triggers

vRealize Operations offers integration with vRealize Orchestrator so you can leverage more of what you already have. Automated workflow triggers let you associate workflows created in vRealize Orchestrator with vRealize Operations alerts. For example, these workflows can be used to automatically delete old VM snapshots when available capacity falls below a critical threshold or to add resources when workload demands are rising above normal. You’re always in control and can customize workflows with simple drag and drop operations. With vRealize Operations you can finally pull the trigger on automation.

Workflow Triggers

Optimize for Efficiency and Compliance

Enable Operational Compliance

Operational compliance views enable you to proactively enforce configuration standards, detect configuration drift early and automatically remediate against violations of IT policies. You can also harden the infrastructure for security and regulatory requirements. Preparing for and responding to audit is no longer a scary and time consuming process because with automated reporting you can pinpoint critical areas with ease. Compliance views are tightly integrated with the operations dashboard for comprehensive visibility into health, risk and efficiency of infrastructure and applications.

Operational Compliance

Right-size and Reclaim Capacity

Go beyond basic server consolidation and right-size your virtual machines. On average, 90% of all virtual machines are over-provisioned - but they don’t need to be. With vRealize Operations you can see the configured amount of CPU, memory and disk and the recommended amount of resources to meet your workload demands. You’ll be surprised to find out how much you can reclaim – as much as 30% in many instances. Use the “What-if” scenarios to model resource consumption of upcoming projects so you can decide if you need to buy or defer hardware purchases. Capacity management with vRealize Operations has never been this easy.